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Quote: Originally posted by cliffbrown on 30/4/2020

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Don't know about winterhoff but I did the same with an alko hitch it came detached going over a sleeping policeman leaving the site luckily not on the road, perhaps a momentary lapse of concentration, that's what I put mine down to, a neighbor was talking to me as I was hitching up

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Quote: Originally posted by richardandjo2010 on 01/5/2020

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I don't know if this applies to your hitch but with the Alko ones some towballs are too shallow to enable the hitch to sit fully home, these are usually the bolt on type of balls, if you don't have the swan neck type on your car maybe this is the reason why it fell off.

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Quote: Originally posted by richardandjo2010 on 01/5/2020

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I don't know if this applies to your hitch but with the Alko ones some towballs are too shallow to enable the hitch to sit fully home, these are usually the bolt on type of balls, if you don't have the swan neck type on your car maybe this is the reason why it fell off.

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Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 01/5/2020

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Quote: Originally posted by richardandjo2010 on 01/5/2020

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I don't know if this applies to your hitch but with the Alko ones some towballs are too shallow to enable the hitch to sit fully home, these are usually the bolt on type of balls, if you don't have the swan neck type on your car maybe this is the reason why it fell off.

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The type of towball you are referring to is called a flange towball which is mounted via 2 x 16mm. nuts and bolts which is the same as mine but strictly has to be an AL-KO type flange towball to allow the greater distance from the bumper plus it has a deeper undercut directly under the ball to accommodate the stabiliser hitch so it doesn't have to be a swan neck type by any means. However, it's a valid point that you raise because if the OP is using a standard type flange towball with a stabiliser hitch then the caravan WILL definitely disengage when it starts to pivot.

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